[Les reports des divers select matters & resolutions des reverend judges & sages del ley : touchant & concernant mults principal points occurrent estre debate per eux: en le several reignes de les tres-hault & excellent princes, le roys Hen. 8 & Edw. 6 & le roignes Mar. & Eliz
collect & report per tres-reverend judge, Sr. Jaques Dyer chivaler ; jades chief justice del Common Bank en le temps du roigne Elizabeth. A que est novelment addes mult mille de references al plusors livers del common ley cybien auncient come modern ovesq ; grand nombre de cases ne unques devant imprimeè. Ove troice tables perfaicts, le primer conteinant le principal matter in le dit liure. Le second le nosmes des touts le cases contenus en mesme. Le tierce le nosmes des cases novelment add en le margent del liure].
[Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Samuel Keble at the Turks-Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street],
Modern reports: or, modern cases in law and equity. : In two parts. Part I. Cases in the King's Bench ... Part II. Cases in Chancery. To which are added some special cases on appeals. Volumes VIII. IX
The 2nd ed., altered and much improved ... by an eminent hand.
Place of Publication
London : For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, J. Rivington, W. Johnston, W. Owen, and P. Uriel
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers ;
Date of Publication
MDCCLXIX.
Physical Description
[416]; [196] pages ; folio
Notes
Signatures: pi² a² B-5L²; [A] -3C².
Unpaginated throughout.
Vol. 9 has separate register, and title page reading: 'Modern reports: or, cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery, . To which are added some special cases on appeals. Volume IX. The second edition, corrected and improved.'.
Also issued with a collective title page for 12 volumes: "Modern reports: or, Select cases adjudged in the Courts of Kng's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, since the Restoration of King Charles the Second, to the end of the reign of King George the First. In twelve volumes, (as cited by C. Viner, esq; in his abridgment) the first seven corrected, and many references added from the reports. The fourth edition. By Danby Pickering ... Vol. 8, 9. The second edition, altered and much improved from many errors in the former, by an eminent hand. Vol. 10,11,12. By R. Lucas, esq; and others, with tables to each volume of the principal matters, &c. London: Printed by His Majesty's law-printers; and sold by J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove in Bell-Yard, near Lincoln's Inn. M DCC LXIX."
Sign for the Lane House, built by Thomas Lane, was later occupied by the family of Elliott Lane, a brother. Here, Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan and mistress of the White House during his Presidence, was born. Sign erected by the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commisstion.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Sign for James Buchanan, President 1857 - 1861, was born April 23, 1791, a half-mile from here. The cabin itself was moved to Mercersburg, 1850, and in 1925 to Chambersburg. In 1953, it was removed to the Mercersburg Academy campus where it may be seen. Sign erected by the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commisstion.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
